After coming to the car park with the Sanders couple, they bid each other farewell, politely agreed to Sanders’ suggestion to go for a meal recently, then watched the Sanders couple drive away. After that, Lu Zheng and his companion also drove home.
When they got home, it was already nearly twelve o’clock at night.
The events of that night need no elaboration.
…
In the ancient world, Lu Zheng began studying the newly acquired “True Dragon Big Hand Seal” and “Little Earth Emperor’s Ghost Controlling Divine Method”. In the modern world, he bought a pile of commonly used foreign language textbooks and started learning foreign languages.
For the next month, Lu Zheng unusually lived a fulfilling life, even staying in the modern world longer than in the ancient one.
…
“Whew.”
In Baiquan Valley, due to the gradually colder weather, the steam from the valley’s hot springs rose into the air and condensed into denser mist droplets upon meeting the cold.
The entire Baiquan Valley was filled with thick water mist, making it even more like a fairyland.
Lu Zheng soaked in the hot spring, letting out a comfortable long breath, feeling utterly lazy all over, not wanting to move at all.
He had just learned those new cultivation methods, studied about ten foreign languages enough for use, and his cultivation upgrade had reached the cooldown period…
With nothing to do, it was time to reluctantly rest again.
Coincidentally, nearly a month had passed since the last hot spring soak, and soaking in hot springs in winter was even more enjoyable.
So everyone gathered again, came to Baiquan Valley, and occupied two spring eyes.
Lu Zheng leaned against the shore, his body immersed in the hot spring, with Liu Qingyan and Shen Ying accompanying him one on each side. Liu Qingquan had run to the adjacent hot spring pool to play with Yu Mingxin and Bai Tinger from Wuxiu Zhuang.
“Eh?”
Lu Zheng suddenly opened his eyes and saw a figure slowly approaching from across the spring eye.
Baiquan Valley was unclaimed territory, and many unusual beings came to soak and enjoy. Lu Zheng had encountered some on previous visits.
But everyone had a tacit understanding, each choosing their own spring eye without disturbing each other.
The only time he was disturbed was once…
“It’s you?” Lu Zheng raised his eyebrow.
Indeed, it was that snake again, with a graceful figure, swaying charmingly.
This time she didn’t disguise herself, wearing a green ruyi cloud-pattern gold-threaded skirt, semi-transparent light gauze, bare feet, exuding demonic allure all over, walking out of the valley mist to the edge of the spring eye.
“I smelled the fresh fruit fragrance and knew it must be you, young master.”
“Don’t…”
Lu Zheng had just raised his hand when the woman shed her gauze skirt and slipped into the spring eye.
A flash of white skin, two hints of rosy red, dazzling to the eyes, gone in an instant.
“Now in the winter cold, where do you get so many fresh fruits, young master?” The woman leaned against the opposite side of the spring eye, not coming over, just asking curiously, “Even preserved with ice, it’s hard to keep them from summer to winter, right?”
Shen Ying narrowed her eyes, “There are many spring eyes in Baiquan Valley, miss, you should change to another one.”
The woman giggled, “Why be so unwelcoming, miss? I won’t eat your husband.”
But seeing Lu Zheng circulate his true qi, his aura gradually rising, the woman quickly shrank back, “Don’t make a move, I just want to exchange for some fresh fruits to eat.”
She reached back into her gauze clothes and pulled out a piece of century-old yellow essence, tossing it to Lu Zheng, “Such a heartless gentleman, am I not comparable to your two intimate companions?”
Lu Zheng caught the yellow essence and slowly shook his head, “My heart is already fully occupied by them, no room for others. Miss, you should seek another good match.”
This romantic line deeply moved Shen Ying and Liu Qingyan.
Liu Qingyan reached out to take the yellow essence from Lu Zheng’s hand, then took some cherries, red apricots, bananas, and a few slices of watermelon from her side, placed them on a wooden tray, and pushed it towards the snake demon.
Shen Ying, moved in her heart, wanted to reward Lu Zheng, so she reached down, but was stunned.
Narrowing her eyes, she leaned close, “What do you say, Lu Lang?”
Lu Zheng coughed awkwardly, “Accident, just an accident!”
“Hmph~”
On the other side, the snake demon received the fruits, didn’t probe further, knowing Lu Zheng wouldn’t tell her the origin of the fruits.
Picking up a cherry and putting it in her mouth, the snake demon’s eyes lit up, then she gave Lu Zheng a seductive glance, retreated her figure, took the wooden tray and gauze clothes, withdrew into the water mist, and immersed into another nearby hot spring.
“Thank you, young master. With my humble willow-like appearance, not catching your eye, I won’t disturb the good time of you three,” the snake demon giggled, “But to add some excitement for you and the two misses, please don’t refuse.”
The next moment, Lu Zheng felt a surge of heat rising in his body.
“This…” Lu Zheng was speechless, this demon was too perceptive.
“No…” Liu Qingyan’s face flushed red, “Qingquan is still nearby…”
Shen Ying narrowed her eyes, “She’s happily playing with Bai Tinger.”
Having been hit by snake poison again after so long, it would be too wasteful to let it go. Lu Zheng waved his hand and used the Seal Cloud Incantation to temporarily seal the area around the spring eye.
…
Just after lifting the seal, Liu Qingquan slipped into this spring eye.
“Were you sneaking food just now? Why seal this spring eye?”
Liu Qingquan approached curiously, sniffing, “Eh, what is this smell? It doesn’t seem like something tasty?”
Liu Qingyan’s jade face turned red, she took a water honey peach and stuffed it into Liu Qingquan’s mouth.
“Woo—crunch!”
Liu Qingquan bit off a piece of fruit, then held the peach in her hand, dissatisfied, “Sister, what are you doing?”
“Let you eat the peach properly. Children shouldn’t ask what they shouldn’t,” Hu Caina said with a smile.
At this time, Hua Yixing and the other four had already dressed and come to this shore.
They had just heard the conversation between Lu Zheng’s group and the snake demon, but since no fight occurred, they didn’t come over.
As for the snake demon adding excitement for the three afterward, and the three accepting it calmly, they certainly wouldn’t come over.
Lu Zheng now noticed that the snake demon next door had already left, so the three got out of the hot spring, put on clothes, joined Hua Yixing and the other four, and returned to Wuxiu Zhuang.
They had lunch at Wuxiu Zhuang and agreed that Lu Zheng would make dinner.
And what Lu Zheng planned to make was barbecue.
“I’ve only heard of grilled meat before, but how do you grill vegetables?” Bai Tinger curiously came over.
In Wuxiu Zhuang, Hua Yixing and Bai Tinger liked vegetarian food, Lin Jinger and Hu Caina liked meat, while Yu Mingxin could eat both.
So when Lu Zheng mentioned barbecue, Lin Jinger and Hu Caina were very happy, while Hua Yixing and Bai Tinger showed little interest.
But when Lu Zheng said he could grill vegetables, it aroused the interest of the two women.
“But now in the dead of winter, what vegetables are there?”
“The Hundred Thousand Mountains in the southern border have almost no winter, but we can’t go to Lingnan Road to buy vegetables, right?”
As the women were discussing, they saw Lu Zheng take out a fine steel grill rack from the gourd, fine smokeless charcoal, hundreds of already skewered marinated meats, vegetables, and various seasonings.
The women: (?˙o˙)?
